Edwardo Lao Rhodes (born 1946) is an American

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scholar and author. An Emeritus Professor at the

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School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Rhodes is best known for his seminal work in

data envelopment analysis Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers.Charnes et al (1978) DEA has been applied in a large range of fields including international banking, econom ...

, as well as his applications of management science to policy analysis and environmental policy.

Academic career

Rhodes received a Bachelor of Arts at

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in 1968 and a Ph.D. from

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in 1978 under the supervision of William W. Cooper. While he started his professional career at the

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at Buffalo, Rhodes developed most of his career as a professor of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at

where he reached the status of Professor Emeritus.

Research

Rhodes is known for the invention of

in 1978, as part of his doctoral dissertation, in the paper "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units" with William W. Cooper and Abraham Charnes. After devoting several years to developing applications of

to public policy and particularly to environmental policy, Rhodes wrote "

Environmental Justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

in America: A New Paradigm" in 2005. In the book, Rhodes discusses new methodological approaches to

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

and argues that race and class are relevant categories previously ignored in analyzing environmental justice issues.

References

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